With ineffective Oversight over there on Mythomania Lane - You Knew a Big School Tax Hit was coming

Well, the inability to control Out-of-Control $pending while pissing away all that State Aid money and nonsense piecemeal plans yet still not properly addressing the Overcrowding - look to the incompetence of Jerry 'ReferenDumb' Shi, aka Mr. Shi-shed, Mr. Pac-Man and his band of P's in a Pod for bringing us to this point.

Here's the State aid over the last 6 years:

Where did all that money go?

Here's the notice they put out when sending the Preliminary 2026-27 School Budget down to the County Super for approval:

This shows the taxes to be raised of $263,214,748, which is a Whopping $28,201,580 increase or 12% over last year's school tax levy.

Here's what they're showing on their website last I looked:

From this, you can tell what the School Tax Rate is that's built into this 2026-27 School Budget.

They're saying the Proposed Preliminary Annual School Tax (2026 Calendar Year) is $6,510 on the average home's assessed 

value. They also tell you that average home assessed's value this year is $186,900.

So, if you divide the $6,510 by the 1,869, you'll get a School tax rate of 3.483. When compared to last year's School tax rate of 3.139, you get an increase of 34.4-Cents or 10.97%.

You can verify this by taking the increase in the school tax levy of $263,214,748 and dividing it by the Estimated Rateables per township of $7,556,614,900 and you'll get a school tax rate of 3.483.

Got a request in to see the 2026-27 School Budget once approved by the County Super.

Three things are undoubtedly true in this one-party town;

1. Thank Shi's inept stewardship and his cronies over the years for the current Board of Ed position.
2. Mayor Sam 'Bubble-boy" Joshi should stay on his own side of town. With that Rin-Tin-Tin Can down on Central avenue - he's the last guy that should be talking about fiscal responsibility. And the hypocrisy of this guy goes to no end - he actually tried to take credit for the school tax reduction as his own when he had a tax increase. Arguably an incompetent buffoon and Malleable Marionette of the powers that be that could only survive his inept stewardship in a protective bubble. A Mayor who has turned the town into an embarrassment.
3. Oversight is everything and when it doesn't exist, this is what you get on both sides of this politically-corrupt town.

Anyhoo, you get what you vote for - Enjoy.